I recommend including all available updates including the kernel.
Regarding the kernel and hardware requiring a driver disk. Either the driver will still be ABI compatible with any new kernel installed at 'run time' - or - the driver is not compatible and a new driver is required regardless.
The only issue to investigate is any artificial restrictions on driver disks imposed by anaconda.
I have not used a driver disk since RHEL7.2 so I don't know what issues might lie there.
John.
Karanbir Singh wrote:
hi guys,
Something to talk about while we prep C-5 for release...
There were some packages that were updated along with release, I can imagine this was since the tree must have been frozen a while before actual release upstream. However, we dont have that problem - the tree hasent been released.
So, what does everyone thing ? Should we release the tree with the updates rolled in ? or should we release the tree exactly as upstream did, and also provide the updates to go alongside - but in the updates repo ?
One thing that I would be very hesitant to update would be the kernel, since updating that would imply updating the installer kernel as well. Which is going to cause lots of issues since its known that vendors and support people will ask for specific kernels at specific times ( eg. installed with x.y.z and 5.0.0 )
- KB